bubblegumn.adj.

1911 Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Texas) 7 Nov. 7/2 Citizens..are up in arms against a swindler who visited their city some days ago and sold them ‘bubble gum’... Instead of making bubbles it made their mouths sore.

1924 Cook County Herald (Illinois) 19 Dec. Stop chewing bubble gum.

1958 P. Mortimer Daddy's gone a-Hunting i. 7 The steady, pungent smell of bubble gum.

1983 Tucker's Luck Ann. 1984 16/3 Stuff three packets of bubble-gum in your mouth at the same time..and blow the biggest bubble you can!

2010 Independent 26 Sept. 48/4 It's [sc. wheat beer] light hopped to bring out the fruity flavours of wheat—spot cloves, banana, even Juicy Fruit bubble gum.

1968 Chicago Tribune 27 July i. 14/1 They call it ‘bubblegum rock’ and insist they don't really like to play it. But the Lemon Pipers at their concert last night at Ravinia had far more bubblegum than anything else.

1971 Melody Maker 9 Oct. 11/7 I suppose one could say that bubblegum was outrageous, I mean there's nothing more outrageous than ‘Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep’.

1985 J. Makower Boom! 73/3 Bubblegum is a light, simple-minded style aimed at the sub-teen market.

2003 N.Y. Mag. 14 July 91/1 We're a mixture of all sorts of things throughout rock history, like glam, bubblegum, and New Wave.

1951 N.Y. Times 16 Aug. 23/2 Miss Grable..[is] a charter member of the bubble gum school of acting and her vehicles are usually standard excuses for stringing together some vaudeville specialties.

1968 Variety 12 June 50/2 1The widely touted ‘bubble-gum music’ approach can now be understood as an appeal to a teenager's lowest common denominator.

1989 Young Americans Autumn 4/2 I'm still getting bubble-gum scripts.

1996 Independent 31 Jan. 12/8 They expected a bubblegum speech; what they got was a nicotine hit and a blast of Siberian air.

2010 S. Fry Fry Chrons. 285 It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain.

1967 Daily Inter Lake (Kalispell, Montana) 16 Apr. 10/4 Hand Blocked Print Fun Top sweatshirts..candy colors: bubble gum blue, candy pink, corn yellow, and peach parfait.

1968 Des Moines (Iowa) Reg. 27 July 9/3 Wide bubble gum pink stripes, alternated with stripes of peppermint-stick red.

1979 Syracuse (New York) Post Standard 18 June (Family Living section) 17/5 Willi Wear's bubble gum pants and blouse and gum drop bloomer shorts with juicy fruit halter and rock n' roll jacket are great togs for..playing volleyball.

1994 P. Baker Blood Posse xxxii. 375 She was dressed in a tight bubblegum dress and had a short Afro and a sensual face.

2012 Independent 17 Mar. 15/1 The harlequin checked zip-up tops, in contrasting raspberry and bubblegum pink.

1935 Fitchburg (Mass.) Sentinel 1 Nov. 16/1 (advt.) Free to every child attending Saturday—double bubble gum card.

1939 Chicago Tribune 31 July 10/5 A few years back I used to collect bubble gum cards with baseball players' pictures.

2008 Free Press (Kinston, N. Carolina) 21 Oct. a4/2 Pro football is the only sport whose bubblegum cards show a player's picture on the front and his fingerprints on the back.

1972 N.Y. Times 19 Nov. 30 d/5 Four songs by a sort of bubblegummy Greek chorus that comments on the hero and his plight.

1994 Campus Canada Mar. 22/2 With their minimalist instrumentation and wonderfully bubble-gummy melodies, these women constitute one of Canada's only cuddle-core bands.

1997 Wine Mar. 75/2 Robert felt the wine became surprisingly ‘bubble-gummy’ when matched with the fish.

2015 Guardian (Nexis) 14 Feb. In the US in the 1970s, it was found that prisoners were quieter in cells painted a bubblegummy shade called Baker-Miller Pink.